Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TREMOR OF INTENT by Anthony Burgess. 239 pages. Norton...
...Civil Rights Act says that desegregation "shall not mean the assignment of students to public schools in order to overcome racial imbalance." The obvious intent of Congress was to exempt de facto school segregation in the North, while seeing to it that federal funds were cut off from Southern school systems segregated by law. The Southerners maintain that schools back home are no longer segregated -- they are merely "racially imbalance," and "racial imbalance" in the South is just as legal as "racial imbalance" anywhere else...
...Department of Health, Education and Welfare for the tough desegregation guidelines it has sought to enforce in Southern hospitals and schools. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, a longtime supporter of civil rights measures, seconded the criticism, said he thought that the department was going "too fast" and was violating the intent of Congress by trying to enforce racial balance rather than merely to end segregation...
...back, Coleman was indicted only for "assault and battery," a charge that Alabama Attorney General Richmond Flowers termed ridiculous. As the trial began, Flowers requested dismissal of the case, so as to leave open the possibility that Coleman might be rein-dieted on a charge of assault with intent to kill. Circuit Judge T. Werth Thagard was only too happy to comply -dismissing the case "with prejudice," meaning that he did not want to hear it again in any event. (In the unlikely possibility that Coleman is reindicted, another judge can preside...
Although it is not the intent or purpose of this initial report to spell out the details of a curriculum, it did seem advisable to map out the broad outlines of a program that we think would be workable. Undoubtedly other specific arrangements might serve the purpose equally well. [Our proposal can be summarized as follows...